YJ Fischer, Daniel Schwerin

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CreditCreditZak Resnick

Nov. 26, 2017

YJ Fischer and Daniel Baum Schwerin were married Nov. 24 in a private family ceremony on a ridge overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu Creek State Park in Malibu, Calif. Lisa Roman, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated.

The bride, 36, is a senior international business development lead at Virgin Hyperloop One, a company in Los Angeles developing a futuristic mode of transportation. She was until May 2016, a diplomat for the State Department in Washington, implementing the Iranian nuclear agreement and working toward peace negotiations in Syria. She graduated from Barnard College and received a law degree from Columbia. She is a daughter of Linda L. Yellin and Dov B. Fischer, both of Irvine, Calif. The bride’s father is a rabbi at Young Israel of Orange County in Irvine. Her mother is a professor of sociology at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.

The bride is a stepdaughter of Ellen Fischer and Lou Weiss.

The groom, who is 35 and based in Los Angeles, was until September Hillary Clinton’s principal collaborator on her memoir “What Happened” (Simon & Schuster, 2017). He was also the director of speechwriting for her 2016 presidential campaign. He previously worked with Mrs. Clinton on her book “Hard Choices,” (Simon & Schuster, 2014) about her time at the State Department. He graduated from Northwestern University.

He is a son of Sandy Baum of Washington and Chuck N. Schwerin of Binghamton, N.Y. The groom’s mother is a higher education economist in Washington. His father, who works at the New York Small Business Development Center in Binghamton, is a certified business adviser to small businesses and entrepreneurs.

The groom is a stepson of Laura Bronstein and Michael McPherson.

The couple met in 2005 while working on Tim Kaine's campaign for governor in Virginia Beach.